Cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's sprint

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The men's 200m Sprint at the 1992 Summer Olympics (Cycling) was an event that consisted of cyclists making three laps around the track. Only the time for the last 200 metres of the 750 metres covered was counted as official time. The races were held on Tuesday, July 28, Wednesday, July 29, Thursday, July 30 and Friday, July 31, 1992 at the Velòdrom d'Horta.^[1]

Medalists

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Jens Fiedler (GER)	Gary Neiwand (AUS)	Curt Harnett (CAN)

Results

• Q denotes qualification by place in heat.
• q denotes qualification by overall place.
• REL denotes relegated- due to being passed
• DNS denotes did not start.
• DNF denotes did not finish.
• DQ denotes disqualification.
• NR denotes national record.
• OR denotes Olympic record.
• WR denotes world record.
• PB denotes personal best.
• SB denotes season best.

Qualifying round

Held Tuesday, July 28.
Times and average speeds are listed.

Pos.	Athlete	NOC	Time	Ave. Speed	Qualify	Notes
1	Jens Fiedler	Germany	10.252 s	70.230 km/h	q	OR
2	Gary Neiwand	Australia	10.330 s	69.699 km/h	q	OR
3	Curt Harnett	Canada	10.368 s	69.444 km/h	q	OR
4	Roberto Chiappa	Italy	10.516 s	68.467 km/h	q
5	José Manuel Moreno	Spain	10.550 s	68.246 km/h	q
6	Ken Carpenter	United States	10.561 s	68.175 km/h	q
7	Frédéric Magné	France	10.617 s	67.815 km/h	q
8	Ainārs Ķiksis	Latvia	10.749 s	66.982 km/h	q
9	Erik Schoefs	Belgium	10.819 s	66.549 km/h	q
10	Jaroslav Jeřábek	Czechoslovakia	10.873 s	66.219 km/h	q
11	Keiji Kojima	Japan	10.902 s	66.042 km/h	q
12	Rolf Furrer	Switzerland	10.935 s	65.843 km/h	q
13	José Lovito	Argentina	11.024 s	65.312 km/h	q
14	Nikolai Kovsh	Unified Team	11.030 s	65.276 km/h	q
15	Jhon González	Colombia	11.097 s	64.882 km/h	q
16	Jon Andrews	New Zealand	11.102 s	64.853 km/h	q
17	Dirk Jan van Hameren	Netherlands	11.284 s	63.807 km/h	q
18	Maxwell Cheeseman	Trinidad and Tobago	11.448 s	62.893 km/h	q
19	Livingstone Alleyne	Barbados	11.559 s	62.289 km/h	q
20	Andrew Myers	Jamaica	11.633 s	61.892 km/h	q
21	Tulus Widodo Kalimanto	Indonesia	11.697 s	61.554 km/h	q
22	Sean Bloch	South Africa	12.186 s	59.084 km/h	q
23	Pedro Vaca	Bolivia	12.243 s	58.809 km/h	q

2nd round

Held Tuesday, July 28
The 1/16 round consisted of eight heats, seven of three riders and one of two riders. Winners advanced to the next round, losers competed in the repechage.

Heat	Pos	Athlete	NOC	Time	Ave. Speed	Qualify
1	1	Jens Fiedler	Germany	11.339 s	63.497 km/h	Q
	2	Jon Andrews	New Zealand
2	1	Gary Neiwand	Australia	11.319 s	63.609 km/h	Q
	2	Jhon González	Colombia
	3	Dirk Jan van Hameren	Netherlands
3	1	Curt Harnett	Canada	11.248 s	64.011 km/h	Q
	2	Nikolai Kovsh	Unified Team
	3	Maxwell Cheeseman	Trinidad and Tobago
4	1	José Lovito	Argentina	11.338 s	63.503 km/h	Q
	2	Roberto Chiappa	Italy
	3	Livingstone Alleyne	Barbados
5	1	José Manuel Moreno	Spain	11.278 s	63.841 km/h	Q
	2	Rolf Furrer	Switzerland
	3	Andrew Myers	Jamaica
6	1	Ken Carpenter	United States	10.981 s	65.567 km/h	Q
	2	Keiji Kojima	Japan
	3	Tulus Widodo Kalimanto	Indonesia
7	1	Frédéric Magné	France	11.230 s	64.113 km/h	Q
	2	Jaroslav Jeřábek	Czechoslovakia
	3	Sean Bloch	South Africa
8	1	Erik Schoefs	Belgium	11.505 s	62.581	Q
	2	Ainārs Ķiksis	Latvia
	3	Pedro Vaca	Bolivia	DNS

2nd round repechage

Held Tuesday, July 28
The fourteen defeated cyclists from the first round took part in the 1/16 repechage. They raced in seven heats of two riders each. The winner of each heat advance to repechage finals.

Heat	Pos	Athlete	NOC	Time	Ave. Speed	Qualify
1	1	Jon Andrews	New Zealand	11.251 s	63.994 km/h	Q
	2	Dirk Jan van Hameren	Netherlands
2	1	Nikolai Kovsh	Unified Team	12.000 s	60.000 km/h	Q
	2	Shinichi Ota	Japan
3	1	Roberto Chiappa	Italy	11.106 s	64.829 km/h	Q
	2	Maxwell Cheeseman	Trinidad and Tobago
4	1	Rolf Furrer	Switzerland	11.700 s	61.538 km/h	Q
	2	Tulus Widodo Kalimanto	Indonesia
5	1	Keiji Kojima	Japan	11.212 s	64.216 km/h	Q
	2	Andrew Myers	Jamaica
6	1	Jaroslav Jeřábek	Czechoslovakia	11.532 s	62.434 km/h	Q
	2	Jhon González	Colombia
7	1	Ainārs Ķiksis	Latvia	11.327 s	63.564 km/h	Q
	2	Sean Bloch	South Africa

2nd round repechage finals

Held Tuesday, July 28
The seven winning cyclists from the second round repechage took part in the final repechage. They raced in two heats of two riders and one heat of three riders. The winner of the first two heats and the top two from heat three advanced to the next round .

Heat	Pos	Athlete	NOC	Time	Ave. Speed	Qualify
1	1	Nikolai Kovsh	Unified Team	11.971 s	60.145 km/h	Q
	2	Jaroslav Jeřábek	Czechoslovakia
2	1	Jon Andrews	New Zealand	11.701 s	61.533 km/h	Q
	2	Rolf Furrer	Switzerland
3	1	Roberto Chiappa	Italy	11.264 s	63.920 km/h	Q
	2	Ainārs Ķiksis	Latvia			Q
	3	Keiji Kojima	Japan

3rd round

Held Wednesday, July 29
The third round consisted of four heats of three riders each. The winners of each heat advance to the next round, with losers getting another chance in the third round repechage.

Heat	Pos	Athlete	NOC	Time	Ave. Speed	Qualify
1	1	Jens Fiedler	Germany	11.285 s	63.801 km/h	Q
	2	Ainārs Ķiksis	Latvia
	3	Erik Schoefs	Belgium
2	1	Gary Neiwand	Australia	11.112 s	64.794 km/h	Q
	2	Frédéric Magné	France
	3	Roberto Chiappa	Italy
3	1	Curt Harnett	Canada	10.994 s	65.490 km/h	Q
	2	Jon Andrews	New Zealand
	3	Ken Carpenter	United States	DQ'
4	1	José Manuel Moreno	Spain	11.216 s	64.194 km/h	Q
	2	Nikolai Kovsh	Unified Team
	3	José Lovito	Argentina

3rd round repechage

Held Wednesday, July 29.
The eight cyclists defeated in the third round competed in the third round repechage. Four heats of two riders were held. Winners rejoined the victors from the third round and advanced to the quarterfinals.

Heat	Pos	Athlete	NOC	Time	Ave. Speed	Qualify
1	1	José Lovito	Argentina	11.266 s	63.909 km/h	Q
	2	Ainārs Ķiksis	Latvia
2	1	Ken Carpenter	United States	11.390 s	63.213 km/h	Q
	2	Frédéric Magné	France
3	1	Roberto Chiappa	Italy	11.137 s	64.649 km/h	Q
	2	Jon Andrews	New Zealand
4	1	Nikolai Kovsh	Unified Team	11.577 s	62.192 km/h	Q
	2	Erik Schoefs	Belgium

Quarterfinals

Held Wednesday, July 29.
The eight riders that had advanced to the quarterfinals competed pairwise in four matches. Each match consisted of two races, with a potential third race being used as a tie-breaker if each cyclist won one of the first two races. All four quarterfinals matches were decided without a third race. Winners advanced to the semifinals, losers competed in a 5th to 8th place classification.

Heat	Pos	Athlete	NOC	Time 1	Time 2	Decider	Qualify
1	1	Jens Fiedler	Germany	10.883 s	11.322 s		Q
	2	Ken Carpenter	United States
2	1	Gary Neiwand	Australia	11.375 s	11.576 s		Q
	2	José Lovito	Argentina
3	1	Curt Harnett	Canada	11.183 s	11.161 s		Q
	2	Nikolai Kovsh	Unified Team
4	1	Roberto Chiappa	Italy	11.134 s	11.325 s		Q
	2	José Manuel Moreno	Spain

Classification 5-8

Held Friday, July 31
The 5-8 classification was a single race with all four riders that had lost in the quarterfinals taking place. The winner of the race received 5th place, with the others taking the three following places in order.

Pos	Athlete	NOC	Time	Ave. Speed
1	Ken Carpenter	United States	11.648 s	61.813 km/h
2	José Lovito	Spain
3	Nikolai Kovsh	Unified Team
4	José Manuel Moreno	Spain

Semifinals

Held Thursday, July 30.
The four riders that had advanced to the semifinals competed pairwise in two matches. Each match consisted of two races, with a potential third race being used as a tie-breaker if each cyclist won one of the first two races. Winners advanced to the finals, losers competed in the bronze medal match.

Heat	Pos	Athlete	NOC	Time 1	Time 2	Decider	Qualify
1	1	Jens Fiedler	Germany	10.791 s	11.279 s		Q
	2	Roberto Chiappa	Italy
2	1	Gary Neiwand	Australia	10.912 s	11.293 s		Q
	2	Curt Harnett	Canada

Medal Finals

Held Friday, July 31.

Bronze medal match

The bronze medal match was contested in a set of three races, with the winner of two races declared the winner.

Pos	Athlete	NOC	Time 1	Time 2	Decider
1	Curt Harnett	Canada	10.930 s	11.102 s
2	Roberto Chiappa	Italy

Gold medal match

The gold medal match was contested in a set of three races, with the winner of two races declared the winner.

Pos	Athlete	NOC	Time 1	Time 2	Decider
1	Jens Fiedler	Germany	10.778 s	10.778 s
2	Gary Neiwand	Australia

Final classification

	Final results
Pos.	Athlete	NOC
1.	Jens Fiedler	Germany
2.	Gary Neiwand	Australia
3.	Curt Harnett	Canada
4.	Roberto Chiappa	Italy
5.	Ken Carpenter	United States
6.	José Lovito	Argentina
7.	Nikolai Kovsh	Unified Team
8.	José Manuel Moreno	Spain

References

External links

• Official Olympic Report